Talk about oboes!!

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I play a Bb soprano clarinet, and there are 10 other instruments that I want to learn. I think that I want to learn how to play an oboe next. I really want an oboe. They have such a unique sound that is like a combination of a flute and violin and sometimes a duck. I really like them, so I've been watching a lot of oboe videos and reading a lot about oboes.
Tell me things that you know about oboes or feel like saying about oboes here.

Oboes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AprDqEvUtmI

I find that the oboe has a very soothing sound, I'd rank it as one of my favorite instruments in an orchestra.

I'm listening to that right now. I really like it.
I really like the part in this song that we played at which my band director made one part an oboe solo. It originally would've had clarinets too, but he told us to not play that part. You can hear it starting at 2:09. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwXKavgLw3I
That was really hard for us to play, and you can hear where we first-clarinets couldn't play the "noodling part" up-to-speed, so we pretended to play at some bits. The whole song is already slowed down for us...... That was fun though and expanded my ability to play higher notes.

I like the bass oboe, however I could find no youtube vids demonstrating this instrument.

I like bass oboes too. I can very seldom find bass oboe solos. I do listen to this video a lot though that has two bass oboes in it. It's an oboe choir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HUBh1x ... ture=share

don't often see oboe choirs, neato

Glutton for punishment, eh? If there's one instrument that is more temperamental than a Buffet Prestige Series Clarinet (AKA the R-13 series) or a LeBlanc Octocontrabass clarinet, it's an oboe. Being that most of my former clarinet teachers are oboists, I can tell you, with a good amount of certainty the oboe will drive you mad. Just looking at that instrument crosswise will cause the keywork to go out of alignment. The aperture between the reeds is so small that most oboists look like they're ready to have a stroke when they're playing. Then there's the old joke about using the oboe as kindling to set a bassoon on fire....

People manage to play them though, don't they?

I wonder if a heckelphone is any easier to play than a bass oboe?

HAHAHA, I had never heard of a heckelphone before, and this was my first impression of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCf0LsA6oUI

what that guy did to that innocent horn, is a crime IMHO.

Yes, but those that do, either have a nasty disposition, or they're smartasses.

I watched a video in which someone joked about what you are probably like if you play certain band instruments, and for oboe it said, "I'm a pretty crazy person, and I like to scream a lot." For clarinet, it said, "I like to blow-dry my hair, even if I'm a guy." They were really random things.

when I was in band, we woodwinds would refer to the trumpets/'bones, horns and tubas as "brassholes."

Hahahahaha
The only jokes slightly like that we have in our band is that we call anyone who accidentally plays at a point that they aren't supposed to a percussionist. Our band director even said to the girl next to me when she did that, "You should join percussion," because it's just about always percussion that messes up.

it has been my experience that percussionists like to blow their own horn.